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When I started my blog back in October I had no idea that I had anything to say. I was just trying to get one post in an easily accessible place. I had not written poetry since the early 1990s and I had no idea that dam was about to burst and that a lifetime of experience was going to rush out of me. Writing about my feelings, about my experiences, quickly became a form of therapy. It has helped me in so many ways.

Writing helps me let go of some of the heavy weight of these hard, isolating feelings. It lets me dump them out on the screen and step back and really examine them. Sometimes not even I understand the import or meaning of what I have written until I can do that. This processing doesn’t happen all at once, but is an ongoing process. I continue to learn about myself, about how I see and experience my world, through my writing.

Finding Our Voices